So, how did Obama do?

Posting this early in case you can’t hold it in till Wednesday morning: A wide open post on President Obama’s State of the Union address, and the rebuttals, of which there may be as many as three, though you’ll have to hit the web for the Herman Cain, representing the Tea Party, and the Occupy movement, which may be streamed here. Or not.

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Brilliant speech. Even as a Republican, afterwards I thought that if 9/10’s of this goes through (not a chance) it would be a great improvement. Hated the pro-fracking comments.
And after listening to Obama for an hour & a half–in a “Let’s come together as Americans” exhortation–Daniels came on with a “Obama’s dividing us” speech. Please. That all you got, GOP? No good ideas? Just more division and hate. “We Americans are all in the same boat,” he says. Not quite. The dinghy isn’t the same as its yacht.

I thought it was a speech that was right on and factual, unlike what is going on in the primaries. American must reestablish a middle class again. There is a lot of hard feelings regarding the very wealthy not paying taxes and people need to be assure this will cease.
Obama was left with a mountain of serious problems once he took office and, although he’s not corrected them all, he is making clear headway and progress on most. He’s made some mistakes for sure, but the man is human, give him a chance. Congress continues to thwart every effort he makes and favors, without a viable alternative or good reason why. This turns my stomach that the Congress is toying with american lives this way.

This country is fractured politically and must find a way to heal, for ALL americans, before it becomes a BROKEN country and people revolt.

I supported McCain in the last go round and must confess that I made a terrible mistake! I found the President’s remarks last night to be inspiring and very positive. As a confirmed news junkie, the actions of the Congress over theses past few years are very alarming. They border on criminal, at the least deraliction of duty and violation of their oath of office. What concerns me even more is the effort to create a Theocracy in America!

Obama was at his best last night. He had the courage to tell it like it is, Congress is comprised of millionaires and soon to become millionaires, so when he said they should be paying more taxes as this country’s rich ,he meant it and they did not like it or him. The really telling comment came from Daniels in the GOP rebuttal when he said ” this country is comprised of the haves and the soon to haves”. Really? how come it hasn’t worked like that under the GOP since Reagan busted up the unions? The American worker has been losing ground for more than 20 years and there has been no trickle down for them. Face the reality that the GOP is totally out of touch with the working class in this country. In a recent speech Romney said almost as an aside ” and by the way ,I’m concerned about the poor” sure you are Gov. You don’t even know what poor is. As far as not inheriting your wealth as you say, you earned it, but remember not every American had a daddy who was rich ,influential and connected. I wonder how well you would have done without that running start. The GOP is fond of telling the world that Obama is the food stamp president, well how did all of those people get poor in America? Why didn’t the job creators provide jobs or opportunity for them? Obama doesn’t want these people on the dole any more than anyone else. Face the facts, Obama got Bin Laden, ended the war in Iraq , saved the auto industry and has been steadily increasing the number of jobs in this country all without the cooperation of the GOP. If Obama didn’t do the things he has done we would be in a situation that would make the great depression look like a Sunday school picnic. Give this guy a little cooperation and watch this country take off.

Come on folks, don’t you all realize that he has to make everything sound great to the American public. Of course he has to hit on issues that will stimulate our senses to say, “Yeah, that’s right! Us middle class deserve better!” Hmmm, who makes up the greater percentage of voters? I’m amazed at how people can be manipulated by speach. Remember the saying, “Actions speak louder than words” (?). I know he came to Schenctady with a bunch of empty promises. Didn’t he do that during his first presidential campaign also? Isn’t that what they all do? Politics is all about telling the voters what they want to hear, but it doesn’t mean that is what will get done. Its gona take a lot more than words to fix this country and it’s gona take more than our President. Our country and ideologies are move divided than ever. Its time for all to unite for the countries common good. Hopefully the right candidate will make that happen.

Same as every other speech he gives,,,,in fact, you can compare them and it’s as if he reads the same speech of the telepromter year after year, just a change here and there to make one think there is something different. Too much time dividing the nation to consider what is really needed. I HOPE he loses,,,and we need to CHANGE Washington. Worst president ever!!!